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Teaching Janusz Korczak. Learning and working with students and professionals
Lecture by Joop Berding
Geneva International Seminar
June 5 2010
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Outline
1. The problem with ‘teaching Korczak’: ‘Seek your own way ….’;
2. Designing a training-course for workers in daycare and after-school care centers;
3. The implementation of the training-course;
4. Questions;
5. Evaluation and effectivity;
6. Follow-up: the brochure;
7. What next?
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1. The problem with ‘teaching Korczak’:
a. ‘Seek your own road ….’;
b. The (un)importance of method;
c. Some cornerstones.
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Five key-concepts
Respect
Justice
Participation
Dialogue
Self-reflection
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2. Designing a training-course for workers in daycare and after-school
care centers
a. introducing Korczak: a name unknown; the problem of history (his story);
b. ‘personal’ theories of upbringing and education;
c. the video;d. some literature to read and study; e. working towards practical results.
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3. The implementation of the training-course
a. prior to the 1st training-session everyone reads an article on Janusz Korczak: kick-off assignment;
b. describe a situation in which a child showed respect for you, and one in which the child did not have respect for you, then the other way around;
c. where did you see the rights of the child in your own practice?;
d. we discuss a ‘case’ about the holiday-program in an after-school care centre;
e. take-home assignments.
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• Working together as a ‘team’
• Dialogue-ing• Prepare a
presentation about ‘values’
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4. Questions
We asked the participants to put down on paperquestions about JK and to JK: esp. The last isinteresting: ‘What would you like to ask JanuszKorczak?’ some examples: what would you like to do if you lived now? what would you do with my group that I cannot get under
control? does your view go back to your own childhood? how did you deal with uncooperative colleagues? why are you so obsessed with the rights of children?
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Certificate
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- We published three times a special Korczak-Newsletter, with reflections by the participants, and texts by Korczak
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5. Evaluation and effectivity We evaluated the training-courses directly after thetraining-course. Our findings:
a. most participants highly valued the open atmosphere of the training-sessions;
b. most found the training inspiring;c. the five key-concepts were found to be instructive,
welcome ‘anchor-points’; d. some people hardly feel any ‘connection’ to the life-
story of Korczak;e. some feel it is difficult to work according to Korczak;f. in general, most feel they have discovered new
ways of ‘looking at’ children.
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After a year we interviewed seven workers from differentcentres; our findings:a. ‘trust’ had become a core concept; b. one group made new rules, and put them on the wall;c. everyone’s ‘position’ in the group was clear;d. children with disturbing behavior are not punished but given a
‘time-out’ period;e. ‘friendship’ has become a topic of discussion between children;f. much more participation of children in all-day activities;g. workers make more use of their ‘intuition’ and factual knowledge
of children;h. there is a balance between freedom and things that have to be
done.
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6. Follow-up: the brochure
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Addresses
• Janusz Korczak Stichting
• Postbus 70048
• 1007 KA Amsterdam
• www.korczak.nl
• www.joopberding.nl
